I can't believe that there are NO comments on his death (besides mine).

No fans here?

R.I.P.

From Instagram @virginiamadsen:

My brother Michael has left the stage.

He was thunder and velvet. Mischief wrapped in tenderness. A poet disguised as an outlaw.

A father, a son, a brother—etched in contradiction, tempered by love that left its mark.

We’re not mourning a public figure.
We’re not mourning a myth—
but flesh and blood and ferocious heart.

Who stormed through life loud, brilliant, and half on fire.
Who leaves us echoes—gruff, brilliant, unrepeatable—half legend, half lullaby.

I’ll miss our inside jokes, the sudden laughter, the sound of him.
I’ll miss the boy he was before the legend.
I miss my big brother.

Thank you to everyone reaching out with love and memory.
In time, we’ll share how we plan to celebrate his life.
But for now—we stay close,
and let the silence say what words can’t.

— Virginia Madsen
on behalf of the Madsen family